
The Federal Capital Territory Administration is to begin profiling all Internally Displaced Persons, IDPs with the view to fishing out miscreants using the avenues as safe Haven to perpetrate nefarious activities .
This was even as the FCT Administration vowed that there was no going back in nipping in the bud the excesses of motorcycle riders and illegal construction of buildings, shanties in unauthorized places in the territory.
Executive Secretary, FCDA, Engr Shehu Ahmad made this known during a joint briefing of FCTA / FCDA top management team on the position of the Administration in the ongoing demolition of illegal buildings and crushing of motorcycles of erring motorcyclists in Abuja.
Ahmad who warned that the Administration would leave no stone unturned at dealing with crime and criminalities in the nation’s Capital towards safeguarding lives and property, said all illegal occupants settling in CAMPS in the guise of Internally Displaced Persons (IDPs) would not be spared.
He however used the medium to call on owners of the reclaimed plots of lands to take possession of their lands and develop them based on the given approval.
He highlighted some Districts with such shanties and illegal developments to include Guzape, Katampe Extension, Lugbe Airport Road Axis, Durumi, Wasa and Kuchigoro.
He also listed Kubwa, Airport road Lugbe, axis, Durumi 1, 2 and 3, Asokoro Extension and Guzape Districts, as some of the areas motorcyclists are causing mayhem and posing security threat with their operations.
According to Hadi, the Taskforce Team on City Sanitation removed over 3000 shanties and illegal structures within two weeks in Guzape Katampe, monkey village among others, and crushed thousands of commercial motorcycles caught operating in unapproved areas.
On his part, Senior Special Assistant to FCT Minister on Monitoring, Inspection and Enforcement, Comrade Ikharo Attah explained that the Team had been carrying out the enforcement with human face to ensure that there’s no human rights violation.
“We are always Civil, and we will continue to be civil because the Minister told us not to trample on human rights. So, we always mark and give notices. We don’t violate human rights…But on time, the time to remove all illegalities is now” Attah explained.
Contributing, the Director, Department of Development Control, Murktar Galadima who called for an attitudinal change on the part of illegal developers, and assured that the Administration would continue to sensitize, and engage residents on the dangers of contravening the development guidelines.
The Development Control Boss used the medium to thank Executive Secretary FCDA for intervention in fixing the weakened Buldozers, even as he expressed delight that plans were underway to secure new Buldozers to sustain the city sanitation and removal of shanties and illegal structures come 2023 .